Timothy H. O'Sullivan began his photography career as an apprentice to Mathew Brady, when the Civil war broke out however he left to work on his own. In 1862 or 1863, he joined the studio of Alexander Gardner and became a photographer helping to create "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War". O'Sullivan's experience photographing in the field earned him a position as a photographer for the first governmental survey of the American West. in 1874 and made prints for the Army Corps of Engineers. Soon after being made chief photographer for the United States Treasury in 1880 he passed away.
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